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[KIM LOGAN] Thank you Kim for your interest and support of OPOAA. Your donations was greatly appreciated. I too did extensive family research with Ancestry years ago. When I started OPOAA in 2001 actually, Ancestry.com had no photographs on their site and decided to link to my one of a kind interactive site and idea, is the reason they now have photographs on their site. Nothing much I could do about it. I only found old photographs in the Library of Congress. Ancestry wants us to pay for our history..My site continues to be free site for the AA researcher. I have since removed my trees from Ancestry. They make money off our hard work and family trees. The DNA package is a joke. We have already laid the ground work for them to connect us.

I am very involved in the research and history of my black ancestors. I have extensive family trees on ancestry which I am always looking to add photographs to the names. I also do extensive posting and research on www.findagrave.com. I am a huge collector of everything Black Americana, including photographs. The history of Black America is very near and dear to my heart.

Rashawn Morine Miller says...Thank you so much for creating this site. I am so glad I stumbled across it! This is exactly what I was wishing for. I'm that family member who ends up with the old family pictures. I treasure them and long to identify the faces and share the images with others. I am excited to start uploading my old photos.

Thank you Rashawn for your contribution to OPOAA. It is greatly appreciated

Thank you so much for creating this site. I am so glad I stumbled across it! This is exactly what I was wishing for. I'm that family member who ends up with the old family pictures. I treasure them and long to identify the faces and share the images with others. I am excited to start uploading my old photos.

Chatty Cathy Doll: She walked, and when you pulled her cord in the back of her neck she talked.

Tether Ball: A ball on a cord, that was anchored on a pole or street corner sign. You would hit the ball back and forth to one other person, and who ever got the cord wrapped all the way around the pole would win.

Clackers: Two giant marbles on a string, and you clacked them together. If you clacked the longest you won.

Marbles,

Jacks,

Cap Guns,

Pic Up Sticks,

Cans on string for telephones,

Hula Hoop,

String and ball on Ankle/ Jump rope

The Games we played:

Stepping on cracks,

Go between,

Your It,

Dishy Dishy Out,

Coottys

Doggy Doggy wheres your bone

Stop Sign Tag

Only safe sitting down

Run around the block-( 2 of us would run around the block opposite ways, and the one that returned the fastest would win),

Stick ball,

Cardboard Slide

Mary Jane, Mary Jane

Little Sally Walker

Hookie Pookie

Footsie

Red Light-Green Light

Double Dutch

Mother May I

Hot-Cold

Ring around the Rosie

Post-Office

I Spy

Duck Duck Goose

Red Rover

Spoons

Paper Scissor Stone

Hambone

Last Tag

Freeze Tag

Mash

Bingo-Car

Bus Stop

ARE YOU SMILING YET?

The Rhymes we sang:

1, 2 tie my shoe

3-6-9,

Miss Mary Mack,

Aww beep beep,

My mother told me,

Down in the Valley

The Dances We Danced:

THE::::Charleston,

Camel Walk,

Football,

Earl Flynn,

Popcorn,

Boo Ga Loo

Snake,

Dog,

Penguin,

Robot,

Disco,

Four Corners,

Twist,

BiggieRack,

Cenepede,

Hully-Gully,

Kool Jerk,

Pearl,

Tap,

Tighten-up,

Rubber Neck,

Strand,

Monkey,

Flashlight,

Mash Potatoes,

Strut,

James Brown,

Bump,

Crazy Legs,

Jitter Bug,

Shot Gun,

Monnarail,

The Rock,

The Hustle,

The Funky Chicken,

The Slide

And Many more to come..............

To Pass the Time:

Catching Lightning Bugs in a Glass Jar,

Making objects with string (Jacobs Latter, Witches Broom.. ect),

Telling corney jokes,

Favorite Misc:

Bobbie Socks,

Black Cat clock with eyes and tail that would swing back and forth,

Popcorn shirts,

People pants,

Candy Cigarettes,

Wax Lips,

Waxed Juices, little waxed juice figures some of them came in soldier men,

Major Contributor album N. Jones - I would like to contact Frank Mackey who responded with a comment on my album. If his email and permission have been granted I would like to have his email to respond to his offer. If not can you please forward him my email. I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide.

L.S.White says...Found this website by accident and I think it's wonderful!! Looking for members of my family with the surnames Rogers, Engram or Ingram-on my grandmother's side from Covington County AL and Jacobs-on my grandfather's side from St. Landry Parish LA. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Found this website by accident and I think it's wonderful!! Looking for members of my family with the surnames Rogers, Engram or Ingram-on my grandmother's side from Covington County AL and Jacobs-on my grandfather's side from St. Landry Parish LA. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

I just discovered your site and I love it! What a wonderful place. I have a facebook page for genealogy, may I share these photos in an effort to help identify them? If not, I'm happy to spread the word of the website

Carol Seldon DuPont Dempey says...Since my last post I have discovered the most interesting information. Augustus I. DuPont and wife Betsey lived in Montgomery Alabama in 1865.Whitfield DuPont was born in Montgomery Alabama in 1865 after the civil war ended. It appears the Foster-Fountain Clan was well acquainted with the DuPont Clan.Sara Mercedes Foster married the son of Whitfield Dupont John DuPont and information from a cousin James Osborn Bryson states (his mother) Claudia Foster went with her baby sister to Pensacola to teach school in the unequal and segregrated school system of Escambia County Florida.My quest is for information regarding Augustus I. DuPont..he was born in South Carolina educated in Washington DC move to Montgonery Alabama in 1865 move to Pensacola Florida and became a city councilman.Who were the parents of Augustus I. DuPont born 1830 in South Carolina? Who were the parents of Captain William Foster?

Since my last post I have discovered the most interesting information. Augustus I. DuPont and wife Betsey lived in Montgomery Alabama in 1865.Whitfield DuPont was born in Montgomery Alabama in 1865 after the civil war ended. It appears the Foster-Fountain Clan was well acquainted with the DuPont Clan.Sara Mercedes Foster married the son of Whitfield Dupont John DuPont and information from a cousin James Osborn Bryson states (his mother) Claudia Foster went with her baby sister to Pensacola to teach school in the unequal and segregrated school system of Escambia County Florida.My quest is for information regarding Augustus I. DuPont..he was born in South Carolina educated in Washington DC move to Montgonery Alabama in 1865 move to Pensacola Florida and became a city councilman.Who were the parents of Augustus I. DuPont born 1830 in South Carolina? Who were the parents of Captain William Foster?

Looking for information regarding my grandmother's mother, Queen Ester Simmons. I believe her mother's name was Hattie Murphy and father Josh Murphy from Greensboro Alabama. Queen Esther Simmons had one daughter, Willie Lee Simmons who married William Love. I am not sure if Queen Esther was married, but if she was she was married to Tommie Simmons.

Love this site! Can't wait until retirement so I can REALLY start my search in ernast. I'm looking for pics/information regarding Alberta Lee (maiden name may be Lewis) from Houston, TX/Pittsburg, PA area AND Lilly Mae Scott of Monroe, LA/Arkansa